On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote:
On 23-06-11 10:43, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
...would a release be in order? I remember we were longing for Cairo back in 2006!
I wouldn't recommend it. People have of course had some time already to test the branch, but I doubt many people did. Now that it is in trunk anyone working on Inkscape will be using it and it's not exactly unrealistic to assume that at least one or two issues will come up.
This branch merge is a very big deal!
Yes it is! And I'm very, very glad that it has finally happened, but doing a quick release after just having merged it might not be the best thing to do. I do agree that we probably don't want to wait too long, but I'd at least give it a month or two.
Two months would be the minimum, however Krzysztof's GSoC work this year will add much more value to our using cairo, we certainly want that in too. The other GSoC students work very much will be appreciated too with standards compliance and refactoring-wise. Plus, we want a stable cairo release with the bug fixes in the devel one to be out in the wild as well. As mentioned in another thread, I wouldn't expect to see it before October so we can properly test it (definitely subject to change).
Cheers, Josh